I know the carve out could have been a bit better but it’s rock solid and only bothers me a lot. (I’ll fix it in the morning)

Link to the conversion boards, they’re only €10 a piece and are made by an independent maker in Norway.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    1 天前

    Also when they put hidden screws under the label, that really sucks. I usually throw those screws away and don’t put them back in most of the time since the only purpose of those hidden ones is to get people to break something trying to take it apart.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      4·
      24 小时前

      Usually the under label ones get put back in, the label just gets a permanent hole in it where the screw is.

      I also tend to write the repair date, what (briefly) was fixed, and my initials inside the device. Depends on the size of the device and level of repair though.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        23 小时前

        I usually peel the label back and replace it afterwards so it looks nice, and in those cases I throw the screw away because if I need to open it I don’t want to peel the label back multiple times since that can crease it and reduce the strength of the adhesive.

        That is a good idea to write what was done inside the case, would be nice if more people did that.

        • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
          2·
          19 小时前

          I picked up the habit of writing from fixing appliances, that way the next guy (usually you) will know what you did last time and also when the last time it was opened.

          Particularly helpful if you have to bodge something in there as a “temporary” fix

    • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      23 小时前

      No, theyre under the label because the label has to go somewhere.

      Edit: yes, every single thing on the world is desinged to fuck you over. You’re not just miserable and stuck in a negativity loop.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        31·
        23 小时前

        I don’t really buy that and it seems to be way to charitable towards companies who would prefer people don’t open their stuff to repair it. Especially in cases where the screws are security screws meant to be harder to take them out, and they put six screws around the outside and one underneath the label footprint, or even worse, under some sticker veneer.

        It’s very obvious when they intentionally try to hide the screw under labels or veneer and the reason for that is very clearly to make repair harder.

        • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          23 小时前

          Yeah, they want to secure the center as well, not just the edges. These screws are often what holds the elecrronics into place.

          There may be cases where some sneaky manufacturer did it on purpose, but it’s usually not the case.

          You have screws under labels only on small devices as a matter of fact. .

          • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            41·
            16 小时前

            If you didn’t have a history of inactivism I might take you much more seriously and also be more charitable here, but you do and the fact is that the practice of hiding screws underneath labels or veneers is a tactic well known to the right to repair movement which companies use to make their products more difficult to disassemble and therefore repair, and make it more likely for people to break something when trying to repair it.

            Honestly no one here is nearly as charitable towards big tech companies as you’re being right now, we recognize that they don’t gain anything from right to repair movements and laws, they actually lose money as a result because if people are able to repair their devices, and companies are legally required to make them repairable, they can’t force customers to buy a new one multiple times because the old one broke.